$350,000 Bond Set In Fire Death Case

August 11, 1985

Bond was set at $350,000 Friday for a woman charged in the slaying of a 63-year-old widower trapped in an Aug. 3 apartment fire she allegedly started after an argument with her boyfriend. Betty Jean Neither, 36, of 429 E. 45th Pl., an unemployed mother of four, was unable to post the bond set by Violence Court Judge Daniel Kelley. The victim, Claude White, walked with a cane and was unable to escape the apartment he shared with Neither`s boyfriend at 4822 S. King Dr., according to Detective Richard Kobel of the Wentworth Area violent crimes unit. The boyfriend was not at home at the time.